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TL;DR: In patients with chronic respiratory failure the acid-base pattern is complex, metabolic alkalosis is present in some patients with elevated HCO₃⁻, and metabolic acidosis ispresent in some with non-elevated HCO ₃¬⁽, even when corrected anion gap was taken into account.

TL;DR: Acute hypercapnic respiratory failure in subjects with OHS was generally responsive to NIV and was frequently associated with congestive heart failure, and Multivariate analysis showed that lower vital capacity at an OHS diagnosis was significantly associated with a higher risk of ICU admission.

TL;DR: A retrospective study identifies four patients with recurrent late-onset post-lesional PH episodes of 1–26-day duration that occurred 6–46 years after the brain insult, and identifies patients associated with sleep disorders and hypoventilation, for which investigations and treatment should be considered.

TL;DR: In these selected critically ill patients, Stewart approach exceeded the diagnostic performance of the conven- tional approach even when AG corrected was taken into account.

TL;DR: In the 3 home-care ventilators, the ventilator SD card underestimated VT and factors involved in this difference differed among the Ventilators.